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U.S. More than 100,000 students stand in and around the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, demonstrating against the recent violence used to breakup a Vietnam War protest at Kent State University, where 4 students were killed when the National Guard fired tear gas and rifles into crowds of student demonstrators protesting the Nixon administration’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, 09 May 1970, Washington, DC // Image by © JP Laffont/Sygma/CORBIS
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An American soldier comforts his comrade who has broken down.
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I honestly can’t believe what I just heard. All I can say is, we’re only as good as our word, we should have NEVER let this happen. I can’t help but be reminded of the words by Mahatma Gandhi:
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace”
Well Gandhi, you were certainly a visionary and I thank you for your contribution to…mankind. But I’m afraid that transition from power to love is a fleeting hope. Of course you probably knew this already.
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Kobuc
By Stephen Janke
My name is Stephen Janke. I am a Baptist minister in N.J. In May of 1971 I was a Sentry Dog Handler in South Vietnam for the Air Force Security Police and twenty years old. I was assigned a German shepherd named Kobuc.
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INTRODUCTION:
During the Vietnam War (1954-75), as part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Historians differ in their assessments of the strategic value of Operation Rolling Thunder. Some claim that the bombing campaign came close to crippling North Vietnam’s capacity to wage war, while others contend the campaign’s effectiveness was limited. Read more
VIETNAM 1969 Old Army saying. Never stand when you can sleep. Road between Saigon and Chu Chi. Off duty NCO sleeps next to bridge his unit guards at night. August 1969.
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In the spring of 1965, within weeks of 3,500 American Marines arriving in Vietnam, a 39-year-old Briton named Larry Burrows began work on a feature for LIFE magazine, chronicling the day-to-day experience of U.S. troops on the ground—and in the air—in the midst of the rapidly widening war. The photographs in this gallery focus on a calamitous March 31, 1965, helicopter mission; Burrows’ “report from Da Nang,” featuring his pictures and his personal account of the harrowing operation, was published two weeks later as a now-famous cover story in the April 16, 1965, issue of LIFE. Read more
Whilst I wait for the train. 🚂 Have a beautiful day
In his annual budget message, President Lyndon B. Johnson asks for $26.3 billion to continue the war in Vietnam, and announces an increase in taxes. The war was becoming very expensive, both in terms of lives and national treasure. Johnson had been given a glowing report on progress in the war from Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. commander in South Vietnam. Westmoreland stated in a speech before the National Press Club that, “We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. I am absolutely certain that, whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing. The enemy’s hopes are bankrupt.” Read more
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“The House Of The Rising Sun” by The Animals
On this day in 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. Read more
Citing “progress” in the Paris peace negotiations between National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam, President Richard Nixon halts the most concentrated bombing of the war, as well as mining, shelling, and all other offensive action against North Vietnam. The cessation of direct attacks against North Vietnam did not extend to South Vietnam, where the fighting continued as both sides jockeyed for control of territory before the anticipated cease-fire. Read more
The US Naval History and Heritage Command announced Tuesday that it completed the transfer of massive amount of historical artifacts from the Washington Navy Yard to their new home in Richmond, Virginia.
The transfer is part of an ongoing project to move more than 300,000 artifacts — from Operation Iraqi Freedom to the Revolutionary War — to the Richmond headquarters, the Navy said. Among other items, the collection includes weapons obtained from enemy soldiers, gifts from foreign countries, flags, plaques, and toys. Read more
Maiden on the Midway 
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